"The longtime producer, 74, recently spoke with Vulture, where he revealed that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease about a year ago."
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"Vampiro was a famous WCW superstar and is the current AA Director of Talent. His feud with Sting was quite memorable, and he was a very dark character. He never reached the top of the WCW, but he was still quite a big name there."
"Wife of Pizza Hut co-founder talks about his battle with Alzheimer’s disease and about experimental drug Janie Carney, wife of Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney, talks about the effects an experimental drug had on Frank during his ongoing struggle with Alzheimer's disease."
"...But this day was different. It marked what would have been my beloved father’s 90th birthday. He’s been gone 10 years now, after a 13-year unwinnable battle with Alzheimer’s. They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes you wonder. It wasn’t supposed to end this way for Dad. He was an athletic, strapping, fit, bright and brilliant man who easily could still be with us. We had plans to experience the road together. There would be football weekends, basketball boondoggles and countless golf trips. Always golf."
VIDEO: "Maria Shriver takes on the deadly disease that has affected her family along with 5 million who are Americans suffering from it. Maria shares her fight against the illness and gives us her insight and tells us what she is doing as an advocate."
"Like many, I was devastated to learn of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s disclosure of a dementia diagnosis, the start of a journey that nine years ago robbed the life of her husband. While a moderate conservative, Justice O’Connor was a courageous bipartisan swing vote in key cases when integrity and fairness trumped of the day. No surprise here: She was confirmed to the Supreme Court on a 99-0 vote..."
Ron Saunders who guided Aston Villa to the 1981 English League crown is suffering from dementia and his son believes it is in part down to heading the ball when an uncompromising striker back in the 1950’s and 60’s.
“They have given it one of their dementia names, his brain has gone.
Saunders is just the latest of his generation of footballers to have his dementia linked to heading the old style ball.
Last week another former Portsmouth player wing-half Rod Taylor’s death was diagnosed as a similar form of dementia linked to heading the ball.
Several other high-profile footballers — including a trio of England’s 1966 World Cup winning team in Martin Peters, Nobby Stiles and the late Ray Wilson — have also been diagnosed with dementia.
Nichelle Nichols, the actress who brought Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek to life, has been diagnosed with dementia, according to conservatorship documents obtained by TMZ. TMZ says that Dr. Meena Makhijani, a specialist in osteopathic medicine, has been treating Nichols for the last two to three years. According to Makhijani, the disease has progressed. Nichols has significant impairment of her short-term memory and “moderate impairment of understanding abstract concepts, sense of time, place, and immediate recall,” according to TMZ.
